Exploring Authentic Leadership through Leadership Journey of Gandhi

Authors

Beena Prakash Nair Ms., NITIEFollow
Prasad T Dr., NITIEFollow
Shreekumar K. Nair Dr., NITIEFollow

Abstract

Leadership research will benefit from bringing in the subjective realities of becoming a leader by considering the leadership journey. Generating an understanding of how leaders turn episodes in time into meaningful subjective narratives helps shed light on the meaning-making process. We seek in this inquiry to understand self-awareness with a narrative meaning-making process. In this study, we adopt a narrative research approach for analyzing the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, who is widely acknowledged as an authentic leader. The study explores individual experiences of becoming a leader and factors leading to the manifestation of authentic leadership behaviour as well as followers’ outcomes. The study will also contribute towards the understanding of triggering events experienced by the leader at different points in life which have led to self-awareness.

Keywords

authentic leadership, self-awareness, self-evaluation, self-concept

Author Bio(s)

Ms. Beena Prakash Nair is a Research Fellow in the department of OB and HRM at NITIE. Please direct correspondence to Beena.Nair.2015@nitie.ac.in

Dr. T. Prasad is a Professor in the department of OB and HRM at NITIE. Please direct correspondence to nitieprasad@gmail.com

Dr. Shreekumar K. Nair is a Professor in the department of OB and HRM at NITIE. Please direct correspondence to shreekumar@nitie.edu

Publication Date

3-1-2021

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2021.4004

Recommended APA Citation

Nair, B. P., T, P., & Nair, S. K. (2021). Exploring Authentic Leadership through Leadership Journey of Gandhi. The Qualitative Report, 26(3), 714-733. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2021.4004